Thursday, December 23, 2010

More Penny Problems

It seems that the most recent "Joe Curtin Award Winner for Leadership Something-or-the-Other" has had the door removed from the 011th District Camera Pod room.

Not that big a deal seeing as how it might be alleged that officers were checking e-mail instead of watching the cameras.

The Big Deal part comes in when it was learned that the computers are set up so officers have to have their backs to the now un-secured doorway.

Anyone who has worked in a Chicago Police Station knows that 99% of them turn into homeless colonies come winter time. We also recall a number of incidents where people with severe mental illnesses or a desire for mayhem have brought guns into police stations and/or attacked desk crews, including one in 011 a year or two ago.

This sounds like a safety issue that needs to be addressed. Maybe we can finally have the disease ridden homeless ejected from our work environs.

Penny SPARED a hispanic officer who got a little tired after being in there 4 hours.However,it was heard that she didnt do anything to 2 m/1 p/o"s who were caught sleeping at the same time.Just ask around you will see it's true.On top of it she wants that hispanic officer,who hasn't been SPARED in years to take a day for it.

You want to talk about safety? Go to the ERPS desk about noon any day. Room full of every kind of crazy, bum, felon and police hater arrested. Looking for his money and property. You know someone in that room has a weapon.

Did anyone ever compare the hour per hour efficiency of the productivity of officers when they are assigned to monitor the Big Brother Cams verses the time when they are on the street when they can answer calls, back other coppers up or just plain be the police.

Anonymous said...Penny SPARED a hispanic officer who got a little tired after being in there 4 hours.However,it was heard that she didnt do anything to 2 m/1 p/o"s who were caught sleeping at the same time.Just ask around you will see it's true..........

Well, then the hispanic officer should document this and other similar situations where she discriminated against others and file a discrimination lawsuit against Penny. African Americans could also discriminate towards other groups. I know someone is going to bring it up, so here it is, from the Oxford dictionary. Discrimination: The practice of treating somebody or a particular group in society less fairly than others because of age/race/religion/sex/sexual orientation.

Penny SPARED a hispanic officer who got a little tired after being in there 4 hours.However,it was heard that she didnt do anything to 2 m/1 p/o"s who were caught sleeping at the same time.Just ask around you will see it's true.On top of it she wants that hispanic officer,who hasn't been SPARED in years to take a day for it.

Word on the street is that both M/1 PO's were spard, but they refused to sign their spar forms. So they did get in trouble to some degree.

Mass transit guy nearly got stabbed with a ten inch blade at the desk in 023 in 2002. Monday morning Supertintendent Eric Zorn wrote about it as if the officer should have said "please don't stab me" instead of shooting him and saving his own life and the lives of others.

As we along with our families prepare for the holiday season, the temptation is for us to slip into a more festive and relaxed mindset. Ove the past two weeks the number of shootings and homicides in locations that are historically problematic should serve as a stark that we cannot afford to relax or be consumed by the holiday festivities. Now is the time to be more vigilant. Please ensure we focused on the bad guys and that we targeting them with laser precision.. Let's get the bad guys and lock them down!!!!

translated as "Who will guard the guards themselves?" Also sometimes rendered as "Who watches the watchmen?"

History

The essential problem was posed by Plato in The Republic, his major work on government and morality. The perfect society as described by Socrates, the main character in this Socratic dialogue, relies on laborers, slaves and tradesmen. The guardian class is to protect the city. The question is put to Socrates, "Who will guard the guardians?" or, "Who will protect us against the protectors?" Plato's answer to this is that they will guard themselves against themselves. We must tell the guardians a "noble lie".[1] The noble lie will assure them that they are better than those they serve and it is therefore their responsibility to guard and protect those lesser than themselves. We will instill in them a distaste for power or privilege; they will rule because they believe it right, not because they desire it.

via >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%3F

Sounds like ol' Penney Ante is running a daycare center in that pod room.

Hey, now you go over there and sit on the naughty chair in the pod room where we can watch you. You You're getting a time-out. Seriously?

Maybe she should put up a pod cam to watch the watchers. Because even with the door taken off someone may still do something that they aren't suppose to do for five minutes while she is not watching. This way it's on tape and she can go back and study it at home to make sure nothing was missed.

And look for more homeless in 011 for the holidays. Just heard on the radio that 5 of the 6 warming centers are closed Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. So the one at 10 S. Kedzie is going to be full....

Penny SPARED a hispanic officer who got a little tired after being in there 4 hours.However,it was heard that she didnt do anything to 2 m/1 p/o"s who were caught sleeping at the same time.Just ask around you will see it's true.On top of it she wants that hispanic officer,who hasn't been SPARED in years to take a day for it.

Penny SPARED a hispanic officer who got a little tired after being in there 4 hours.However,it was heard that she didnt do anything to 2 m/1 p/o"s who were caught sleeping at the same time.Just ask around you will see it's true.On top of it she wants that hispanic officer,who hasn't been SPARED in years to take a day for it.

Seeing the homeless camp out in the 011 district is a disgrace. There is a shelter about 3 blocks away. citizens who come in to make reports have to climb over these people to reach the desk. No, I am not heartless, esp. the Christmas season, but it is a danger to everyone. No one is frisked, many are mentally ill, drunk or on drugs. Let's not even mention the lice, TB and other bugs that are brought in. Why do we allow our own employees subject to this along with innocent citizens? Lawsuit would be the best.

Anytime a supervisor feels the need to monitor employees that closely should take a look at his own management style. The problem described here lies completely with management and the fact that hierarchy is not addressing it, is not only negligent but more mismanagement.

As we along with our families prepare for the holiday season, the temptation is for us to slip into a more festive and relaxed mindset. Ove the past two weeks the number of shootings and homicides in locations that are historically problematic should serve as a stark that we cannot afford to relax or be consumed by the holiday festivities. Now is the time to be more vigilant. Please ensure we focused on the bad guys and that we targeting them with laser precision.. Let's get the bad guys and lock them down!!!!

A xmas note from the boss written the exact way he was taught.

12/23/2010 12:07:00 PM

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OMGGGGGG..... This is a riot.......the only thing he left out, other then mis-spelling, syntax, WORDS and a host of other things is the HO HO HO.... We do know how much dear old Downtown loves his HO's.......

Maybe while our children track Santa on Norad, we can ask him to stop in on the westside and southside, call in airstrikes, put 50 cal guns on the sleigh and napalm the rest.

The Departmemt of Human Services advises people who find themselves without a place to sleep or home to go to the nearest police station and ask them to call the Department of Human Services and they will send a car to pick the people up and take them to the nearest shelter with a vacancy.

The Departmemt of Human Services advises people who find themselves without a place to sleep or home to go to the nearest police station and ask them to call the Department of Human Services and they will send a car to pick the people up and take them to the nearest shelter with a vacancy.

Is this not true?

12/23/2010 11:12:00 PM

Yes, it's true that's what they ask people to do. No, it is not true that they actually send a car to pick them up. So far this winter, even after I called as the desk Sgt. to verify they were coming, not once have they actually come to get the person.

It is about time that the department retro fit the new stations and close off that large lobby. Build a wall on either side of the entrance doors that run up to the desk and put bullet resistant glass on top of the desks. Then get Human Services to pick up the homeless within the hour and not at their usual time of 530 in the morning.

No one should have been in the pod room for 4 hrs.Anyone who would be in there that long would most likely be sleeping. And if any supervisor or Cmdr. should walk in and catch you in such a state, shame on YOU. Black, Latino, whatever, if you're stupid, you're going to be treated like you're stupid. Man up and deal with it, but don't look for sympathy on the blog, there's none to be found.

>>>Anonymous said...The best idea ever!! lets pull a 10-4 car off the streets, every hour to man the pod room when were already down 4-5cars on the weekend.

12/25/2010 01:06:00 PM<<<

Copper on his way home last night from M.S.F. at Homan Square gets waylaid by two punks. Could have been a bad scene like it was a year ago when the Zone 10 Dispatcher fell asleep on the 10-1. Have more cops around, just when we need them. No lets take them out of service and to do nothing but twiddle their thumbs going cross-eyed.